77.991 Administration.
(1) The department of revenue shall administer the tax under this subchapter and may take any action, conduct any proceeding and impose interest and penalties.
(2) Sections 77.51 (12m), (13), (14), (14g), (15a), (15b), and (17), 77.52 (1b), (3), (5), (13), (14), (18), and (19), 77.522, 77.523, 77.58 (1) to (5), (6m), and (7), 77.585, 77.59, 77.60, 77.61 (2), (3m), (5), (6), (8), (9), (12) to (15), and (19m), and 77.62, as they apply to the taxes under subch. III, apply to the tax under this subchapter. Section 77.73, as it applies to the taxes under subch. V, applies to the tax under this subchapter. The renter shall collect the tax under this subchapter from the person to whom the passenger car is rented.
(3) From the appropriation under s. 20.835 (4) (gg), the department of revenue shall distribute 97.45 percent of the taxes collected under this subchapter for each district to that district and shall indicate to the district the taxes reported by each taxpayer in that district, no later than the end of the month following the end of the calendar quarter in which the amounts were collected. The taxes distributed shall be increased or decreased to reflect subsequent refunds, audit adjustments, and all other adjustments. Interest paid on refunds of the tax under this subchapter shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.835 (4) (gg) at the rate under s. 77.60 (1) (a). Those taxes may be used only for the district's debt service on its bond obligations. Any district that receives a report along with a payment under this subsection is subject to the duties of confidentiality to which the department of revenue is subject under s. 77.61 (5).
(4) Persons who are subject to the tax under this subchapter shall register with the department of revenue. Any person who is required to register; including any person authorized to act on behalf of a corporation, partnership or other person who is required to register; who fails to do so is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History: 1993 a. 263; 1999 a. 9; 2003 a. 203; 2007 a. 20; 2009 a. 2, 330; 2011 a. 18, 68; 2013 a. 20; 2019 a. 10; 2021 a. 238 s. 45.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
77.015 - Lands in villages included.
77.03 - Taxation of forest croplands.
77.08 - Supplemental severance tax.
77.09 - False reports, penalties.
77.10 - Withdrawal of forest croplands.
77.11 - Accounts of department of natural resources.
77.12 - Review of findings, venue.
77.13 - Termination of forest croplands program.
77.14 - Forest croplands information, protection, appropriation.
77.17 - Contracts for land in the lower Wisconsin state riverway.
77.22 - Imposition of real estate transfer fee.
77.23 - Disposition of fees and returns.
77.255 - Exemptions from return.
77.256 - Local fees prohibited.
77.26 - Powers of investigation, additional fees, refunds, penalties.
77.27 - Penalty for falsifying value.
77.52 - Imposition of retail sales tax.
77.523 - Liability of marketplace providers, retailers, and marketplace sellers.
77.524 - Seller and 3rd-party liability.
77.525 - Reduction to prevent double taxation.
77.53 - Imposition of use tax.
77.535 - Increases; building materials.
77.55 - Exemptions from sales tax.
77.56 - Exemptions from use tax.
77.57 - Liability of purchaser.
77.59 - Deficiency and refund determinations.
77.60 - Interest and penalties.
77.61 - Administrative provisions.
77.62 - Collection of delinquent sales and use taxes.
77.63 - Collection compensation.
77.65 - Uniform sales and use tax administration.
77.66 - Certification for collection of sales and use tax.
77.67 - Amnesty for new registrants.
77.68 - Qualified child sales and use tax rebate for 2018.
77.70 - Adoption by county ordinance.
77.705 - Adoption by resolution; baseball park district.
77.706 - Adoption by resolution; football stadium district.
77.71 - Imposition of county and special district sales and use taxes.
77.77 - Transitional provisions.
77.79 - Relation to subch. III.
77.82 - Managed forest land; application.
77.83 - Closed, open and restricted areas.
77.84 - Taxation of managed forest land.
77.876 - Noncompliance assessment.
77.88 - Withdrawal; transfer of ownership; nonrenewal.
77.885 - Withdrawal of tribal lands.
77.89 - Distribution of moneys received.
77.895 - Grants for land acquisitions for outdoor activities.
77.905 - Procedure in forfeiture actions.
77.91 - Miscellaneous provisions.
77.935 - Single-owner entities.
77.94 - Surcharge determination.
77.95 - Interest and penalties.
77.994 - Premier resort area tax.